[Grok-dev] Grokserver scripts using a different path than python's console

[Hector Blanco]

Wow... thank you for the quick answer...

I see a setup.py under my "server" folder, but that is automatically
created with grokproject. Should I put it there and re-run
bin/buildout?

2010/12/15 Jeffrey Peterson <bgpete at gmail.com>:
> Put mysql-python in install requires in setup.py and let grokproject install it for you.
>
> On Dec 15, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Hector Blanco wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone... I just tried to install the latest version of
>> grokserver (1.2.1) but for some reason the PATH the scripts to install
>> and start the server differ for the path the regular python console
>> uses.
>>
>> I created a "server" project under "$HOME/myown-cms/" using:
>> $ grokproject server
>> (no sudo)
>>
>> It worked fine, everything was installed and the server started working.
>>
>> Then I manually installed the MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz package which
>> installs its .egg under /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/
>>
>> And when I tried to use it in my grokserver application, I got a nasty
>> exception: ImportError: No module named MySQLdb. If I open a python
>> console I can properly import MySQLdb.
>>
>> I studied the version and the path both console and the grok-scripts
>> under server/bin/ are using, and I got this:
>>
>> In bin/paster:
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> /usr/bin/python2.6
>> /home/ae/myown-cms/server/parts/app
>> /home/ae/myown-cms/server/bin
>> /usr/lib/python2.6
>> /usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2
>> /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk
>> /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old
>> /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload
>> /home/ae/myown-cms/server/src
>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/z3c.evalexception-2.0-py2.6.egg
>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/Paste-1.7.5.1-py2.6.egg
>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg
>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/PasteScript-1.7.3-py2.6.egg
>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.3.4-py2.6.egg
>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/zope.security-3.7.4-py2.6-linux-i686.egg
>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/grokcore.startup-1.1-py2.6.egg
>>
>> [ . . . A LOT OF OTHER EGGS IN $HOME/.buildout/eggs . . . ]
>>
>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/mechanize-0.2.3-py2.6.egg
>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/zope.minmax-1.1.2-py2.6.egg
>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/zope.tal-3.5.2-py2.6.egg
>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/RestrictedPython-3.6.0-py2.6.egg
>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/zope.datetime-3.4.0-py2.6.egg
>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/zope.testing-3.10.0-py2.6.egg
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> For the console:
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> ae at ae-desktop:~$ python
>> Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41)
>> [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> import sys
>>>>> sys.executable
>> '/usr/bin/python'
>> (just a link to /usr/bin/python2.6, same thing the paster script)
>>>>> for pth in sys.path:
>> ...     print pth
>> ...
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/grokproject-2.2-py2.6.egg
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/lxml-2.3beta1-py2.6-linux-i686.egg
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/hashlib-20081119-py2.6-linux-i686.egg
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/feedparser-4.1-py2.6.egg
>>
>> [ . . . A LOT OF OTHER EGGS IN /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ . . . ]
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/zope.copy-3.5.0-py2.6.egg
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/zope.testing-3.10.0-py2.6.egg
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.6-linux-i686.egg
>> /usr/lib/python2.6
>> /usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2
>> /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk
>> /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old
>> /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload
>> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
>> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL
>> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10
>> /var/lib/python-support/python2.6
>> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0
>> /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gtk-2.0
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> The Path information under /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/
>> that appears with the console doesn't appear in the paster script, and
>> I don't know why... Do I have to install the grokserver being root?
>>
>> I have another instance of grokserver running with python2.4, and I
>> was able to import the module MySQLdb there. I read that I could be
>> having this kind of trouble for having two different python versions,
>> but I'm not really sure if this problem is caused for that or not.
>>
>> Any hint will be deeply appreciated. Thank you in advance
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